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(), a. & adv.[See Rough.] Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer. Row n.[Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.] A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] Byron. Row (), n.[OE. rowe, rawe, rewe, AS. rw, rw; probably akin to D. rij, G. reihe; cf. Skr. rkh a line, stroke.] A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. And there were windows in three rows. 1 Kings vii. 4. The bright seraphim in burning row. Milton. Row culture (Agric.), the practice of cultivating crops in drills. Row of points (Geom.), the points on a line, infinite in number, as the points in which a pencil of rays is intersected by a line. Row (), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Rowed (); p. pr. & vb. n.Rowing.] [AS. rwan; akin to D. roeijen, MHG. rejen, Dan. roe, Sw. ro, Icel. ra, L. remus oar, Gr. , Skr. aritra. 8. Cf. Rudder.] 1. To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat. 2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge. Row v. i. 1. To use the oar; as, to row well. 2. To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily. Row n.The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat. スポンサード リンク
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